NICE-approved weight management pathways, including licensed pharmacotherapy and specialist referral, are the appropriate starting point
If gastric contents are found by ultrasound and these are considered as a high risk for aspiration, patients should be counselled about this risk before deciding to proceed with sedation/general anaesthesia
Barriers to initiating treatment may include delayed recognition of obesity as a disease by public health and medical organizations, provider biases regarding patients with obesity, lack of reimbursement leading to out-of-pocket costs to patients, inadequate training of providers, historical safety issues with AOMs, and perceptions of patients and their caregivers regarding the efficacy of AOMs [14,15,16,17]
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